Filter by
Denmark-Greenland in the twentieth century (Vol. 341)
This book traces Danish-Greenlandic relations over 100 years and is the first publication to cover the period 1900-2000. The main trend is the development from a colonial situation in 1900 with a state owned company runnig nearly all business to an open economy with steadily growing selfgovernment for Greenland short of full independence. The Danish policy can be described as benevolent, but fi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788763530705
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Things in Culture, Culture in Things
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and discourses. The book is divided according to four themes: soft objects, stoic stories, consuming and the collectable,…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789949323944
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Space of Culture – the Place of Nature in Estonia and Beyond
This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of culture phenomena across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions are arranged around a general question of how humans organise the spaces in which they live. The book is divi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789949196234
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Colecionismos, práticas de campo e representações
As coleções cientÃficas, as práticas de campo, suas representações artÃstico/cientÃficas, suas relações comerciais ocupam cada vez mais um lugar privilegiado na produção historiográfica internacional.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788578791179
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300 LOP c
Cohabitation and Marriage in The Americas; Geo-Historical Legacies and New Tr…
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319314402
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300 EST c
Equality and Diversity : Equality and Diversity
This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781847426079
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Social Science / Violence In Society : What's Love Got to Do with It
This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between this and domestic violence and abuse experienced by heterosexual women and men. It examines how experiences of domestic violence and abuse may be shaped by gender, sexuality and age, including whether and how victims/survivors seek help, and asks, whatâ…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781447307433
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Migration Period, Pre-Viking Age, and Viking Age in Estonia
This book analyses the society, economy, settlement, and culture of the territory of present-day Estonia in the period of ca AD 450–1050. This period is known in the Estonian archaeological chronology as the Migration Period, the Pre-Viking Age, and the Viking Age. This was an era of rapid change, by the end of which traditional Estonian peasant culture as it is known until the 19th century h…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789949199365
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Generations in Estonia Contemporary Perspectives On Turbulent Times
This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the volume as a whole taking an interdisciplinary approach. Sharing the idea that generations are dynamic, that their borders are blurred and change over time, and that their constr…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789949770557
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion
"The authors of the present volume, Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion, focus on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life. More broadly expressed, the collection looks at the social, ceremonial and material contexts of myths. This topic has been underexplored in previous research on Old Norse myths, despite its important theoretical implicat…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789176350966
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography